Across the Plains - With Other Memories and Essays #233712

And sickness. 'i agree with you the lights seem a little turned down,' so you write to me now; 'the truth is I was far through, and came none too soon to the South Seas, where I was to recover peace of body and mind. And however low the lights, the stuff is true. Well, inasmuch as the South Sea sirens have breathed new life into you, we are bound to be heartily grateful to them, though as they keep you so far removed from us, it is difficult not to bear them a grudge; and if they would reconcile us quite, they have but to do two things morewto teach you new tales that shall charm us like your old, and to spare you, at least once in a while in summer, to climates within reach of us who.